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                <p>After a team has worked on one or more iterations, also known as sprints, you can
                    determine the rate of team progress by reviewing the Burndown and Burn Rate report.
                    Burndown shows the trend of completed and remaining work over a specified time period.
                    Burn rate provides calculations of the completed and required rate of work based
                    on the specified time period. In addition, a chart shows the amount of completed
                    and remaining work that is assigned to team members. You can view the Burndown and
                    Burn Rate report based on hours worked or number of work items that have been resolved
                    and closed. </p>
                <p>For information about how to access, refresh, or manage reports, see <span sdata="link">
                    <a href="ReportsGovDev.html">Reports (GovDev)</a></span>. </p>
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                                <p>This report requires that the team project collection that contains your team project
                                    was provisioned with SQL Server Reporting Services. This report is not available
                                    if
                                    <img alt="Report" src="../art/Icon_reportTE.gif" />
                                    <span class="ui">Reports</span> does not appear when you open Team Explorer and expand
                                    your team project node. </p>
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                                <p><span class="label">In this topic</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Data">Data in the Report</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Duration">Setting the Duration of the Iteration</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Interpreting">Interpreting the Report</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Changing">Filtering the Report and Changing the Display</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">You can use this report to answer the following questions</span> 
                                    :</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Is the team likely to finish the iteration on time? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Will the team complete the required work, based on the current burn rate? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How much work does each team member have? </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                <p><span class="label">Required Permissions</span> </p>
                <p>To view the report, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned
                    the <span class="ui">Browser</span> role in SQL Server Reporting Services. For more
                    information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/3cfefdd2-b161-4e04-8dc0-e2deeac50262">
                        Add Users to Team Projects</a></span> or <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8f1f5f39-ed0f-4539-bee1-7e7e77bb5728">
                            Managing Permissions</a></span>.</p>
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                in the Report</span> </h1>
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                <p>The Burndown and Burn Rate report summarizes the data that was captured during the
                    time interval that you specify for each task, use case, or bug based on the filters
                    that you specify. The data is derived from the data warehouse.</p>
                <p>You can filter the report in the following ways:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Change the start and end dates for the report.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Filter the tasks that are counted in the report by specifying iteration and area
                            paths and work item states. You can also filter the report to show use cases
                            and bugs.</p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>For more information, see <a href="#Changing">Filtering the Report and Changing the
                    Display</a>later in this topic.</p>
                <p>You can use the Burndown and Burn Rate report to understand how well the team is
                    progressing and whether the team or a team member is over-allocated. The upper section
                    of the report displays a version of the Remaining Work report, as the following
                    illustration shows.</p>
                <img alt="Example Burndown and Velocity report - bottom" src="../art/ProcGuid_BurndownBottom.png" /><p>
                    In addition, you can display trend lines that predict when work will be completed.
                    The ideal trend line calculates a slope or trajectory for when work will be completed
                    based on the amount of work remaining and the end date that you define for the report.
                    The actual trend line is calculated based on the team's actual progress in completing
                    work and closing work items.</p>
                <p>The lower section of the report presents a calculation of the team's burn rate, both
                    actual and required, and a breakdown of work assignments to each team member, as
                    the following illustration shows:</p>
                <img alt="Example Burndown and Velocity report - top" src="../art/ProcGuid_Part2Burndown.png" /><h3
                    class="subHeading">Burndown</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>Burndown shows the trend of how much work has been completed and how much work remains
                        across time in an iteration or a release. The source of the raw data is either work
                        hours or work remaining, which is tracked on the vertical axis, and the time period
                        (days), which is tracked on the horizontal axis. </p>
                    <div class="caption"></div>
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                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Hours</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Number of Work Items</p>
                                </th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Hours Remaining</span>: The cumulative value of all remaining hours
                                                for all tasks. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Hours Completed</span>: The cumulative value of all completed hours
                                                for all tasks.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                    <p><span class="label">Trend lines</span>:</p>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Actual</span>: The line intersects the x-axis when the iteration
                                                is expected to complete based on the actual rate of hours being completed and hours
                                                remaining.</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Ideal</span>: The line is drawn from the remaining work on the start
                                                date to intersect the x-axis on the end date.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Active</span>: The cumulative total of all tasks, use cases,
                                                or bugs that are in the <span class="ui">Active</span> (blue) state. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Resolved</span>: The cumulative total of all use cases or bugs
                                                and that are in the <span class="ui">Resolved</span> (gold) state.</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Closed</span>: The cumulative total of all tasks, use cases,
                                                or bugs in the <span class="ui">Closed</span> (green) state. </p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
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                <h3 class="subHeading">Burn Rate</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>The Burn Rate section of the report shows an estimate of how much work a team can
                        complete during an iteration. Burn rate is one of the key elements for estimation.
                        This calculation shows how quickly the team is actually completing planned work
                        and how much the rate varies from day to day, or iteration to iteration. You can
                        use this data to plan the next iteration, together with the quality measures. Similar
                        to the Remaining Work report, this strategy is most useful when you look at days
                        within an iteration or several iterations within a project. For more information,
                        see <span sdata="link"><a href="RemainingWorkReport.html">Remaining Work Report</a>
                        </span>.</p>
                    <p>The following table describes how the burn rate is calculated. </p>
                    <div class="caption"></div>
                    <div class="tableSection">
                        <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Team Burn Rate (Hours Completed/Day)</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Team Burn Rate (Work Items Completed/Day)</p>
                                </th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Actual</span>: The total number of hours that the team completed
                                                during the time interval that you specify and divided by the number of days in the
                                                interval. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Required</span>: The total number of hours that were estimated for
                                                the time interval that you specify and divided by the number of days in the interval.
                                            </p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Actual</span>: The total number of work items that the team completed
                                                during the time interval that you specify and divided by the number of days in the
                                                interval. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Required</span>: The total number of work items that the team defined
                                                for the time interval that you specify and divided by the number of days in the
                                                interval.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <h3 class="subHeading">Assignment of Work</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>The Assignment of Work section of the report provides insight into how well work
                        has been allocated across the team, in addition to the work that the team completed
                        and that remains for each team member. The following table describes the information
                        that this view provides.</p>
                    <div class="caption"></div>
                    <div class="tableSection">
                        <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Assignment of Work (Hours)</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Assignment of Work (Number of Work Items)</p>
                                </th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p>For each team member:</p>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Remaining</span>: The total number of hours that remain in the time
                                                interval that you specify. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Completed</span>: The total number of hours that the team member
                                                completed in the time interval that you specify.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <p>For each team member:</p>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Active</span> (blue): The total number of tasks, use cases, and
                                                bugs that are in the active state. </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Resolved</span> (gold): The total number of tasks, use cases,
                                                and bugs that are in the resolved state.</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p><span class="ui">Closed</span> (green): The total number of tasks, use cases, and
                                                bugs that are in the closed state.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <h3 class="subHeading">Required Activities for Tracking Work Items</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>For the Burndown and Burn Rate report to be useful and accurate, the team must perform
                        the following activities for tracking work items:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <p>Define tasks, use cases, and bugs, and specify the <span class="ui">Iteration</span> 
                                and <span class="ui">Area</span> paths for each. </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Specify and update the <span class="ui">Completed</span> and <span class="ui">Remaining
                                </span> fields for each task or subtask as it is worked on.</p>
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                                    <tr>
                                        <td>
                                            <p>If you subdivide a task into subtasks, specify hours only for the subtasks. These
                                                hours are rolled up as summary values for the parent task and use case. For more
                                                information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/09e8e02d-9ecb-4012-9ee0-cebb89372096">
                                                    Address Inaccuracies Published for Summary Values</a></span>.</p>
                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table>
                            </div>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Update the <span class="ui">State</span> of each use case, task, and bug as it progresses
                                from active to closed. </p>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
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                the Duration of the Iteration</span> </h1>
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                <p>To understand the progress that the team has made for your current iteration, the
                    start and end dates for the report must match your current iteration cycle. Results
                    for the actual trend and team burn rate will vary significantly based on the duration
                    that you set for the iteration. </p>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To change the duration of the iteration</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>For the <span class="ui">Iteration Start (Date)</span> and <span class="ui">Iteration
                                End (Date)</span>, click the calendar icon, and then click the date that corresponds
                                to the start or end of the iteration.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">View Report</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
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                <p>You can filter the report in the following ways:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Change the start and end dates for the report.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Filter the use cases, tasks and bugs that are counted in the report by specifying
                            iteration and area paths, work item types, and work item states.</p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>For more information, see <a href="#Changing">Filtering of the Report and Changing
                    the Display</a>later in this topic.</p>
                <h3 class="subHeading">Questions That the Report Answers</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>You can review the report to determine the progress that the team made within an
                        iteration or over time. For example, you can find answers to the following questions:
                    </p>
                    <h4 class="subHeading">Burndown</h4>
                    <div class="subsection">
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <p>How fast is the team completing remaining work? </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Is the team adding work during the iteration? Is there scope creep?</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>How much work can the team complete in the available time?</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>When can the team finish the work?</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>When can the team finish the current iteration?</p>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                    <h4 class="subHeading">Burn Rate</h4>
                    <div class="subsection">
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <p>Is the team working quickly enough to finish the remaining work on time?</p>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                    <h4 class="subHeading">Work Assignment</h4>
                    <div class="subsection">
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <p>How is the work distributed across the team? </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Should the team balance the remaining work load?</p>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <h3 class="subHeading">Healthy Versions of the Report</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>A healthy Burndown and Burn Rate report shows that the team is making steady progress
                        toward finishing the work. The actual and ideal trend lines are close together.
                    </p>
                    <img alt="Healthy version of Burndown report" src="../art/ProcGuid_HealthyBurndown.png" />
                </div>
                <h3 class="subHeading">Unhealthy Versions of the Report</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>An unhealthy Burndown and Burn Rate report will show one or more of the following
                        indications:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">Actual and ideal trend lines are diverging or are far apart</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">The total number of hours is increasing</span>. </p>
                            <p>Scope creep occurs when team members add features to an iteration after it is planned.
                                The following illustration shows an iteration in which a team is taking on more
                                work over time and making minimal progress on the work that had already been assigned.
                            </p>
                            <img alt="Burndown showing scope creep" src="../art/ProcGuid_ScopeCreep.png" />
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
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                the Report and Changing the Display</span> </h1>
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                <p>You can filter the Burndown and Burn Rate report or change its display in the following
                    ways:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Filter the use cases, bugs, and tasks that the report represents by specifying
                            iteration and area paths, work item types, and work item states</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Change the view.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Specify the type of trend line to display. </p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>The following illustration shows the available filters and display options:</p>
                <img alt="Filters for the Burndown and Velocity report" src="../art/ProcGuid_Burndown.png" /><h3
                    class="procedureSubHeading">To filter the set of work items that are counted in
                    the report</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>Perform one or both of the following actions:</p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Iteration</span> or <span class="ui">Area</span> list, select
                                        the check box of each iteration or product area to include.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Work Item Type</span> or <span class="ui">State</span> list,
                                        select the check box of each work item type or state to include.</p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">View Report</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To switch between work hours and number of work items
                    displayed in the report </h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">Measure</span> list, click one of the following options:
                            </p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">Hours of Work</span> displays the cumulative number of work hours
                                        for all tasks that are defined for the iteration.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">Number of Work Items</span> displays the cumulative number of work
                                        items, grouped by state, that are defined for the iteration. </p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">View Report</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To display trend lines</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">Trend Line</span> list, click one of the following options:
                            </p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">Display Actual</span> displays a band that is based on the actual
                                        burndown. The band intersects the x-axis when the iteration is expected to finish.
                                    </p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">Display Ideal</span> displays a straight line from the remaining
                                        work at the start date to the x-axis on the end date.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">Display Both</span> displays both the actual and ideal trend lines.
                                    </p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p><span class="ui">None</span> does not display a trend line. </p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">View Report</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
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